The name and the dish originate from Russia. There, solyanka is a traditional home-style soup, prepared in variations featuring meat, fish or mushrooms. It is made using a meat or fish stock as a base and derives its characteristic tang…
Cestini di arance con crema
Today we serve an Italian dessert classic that can be prepared easily the previous day to round off a menu. Typically Italian, with few ingredients that are beautifully presented. A little forgotten, but unjustly so. Above all, you need very…
Arroz cremoso de verduras
In Spain, they love rice and grow a very excellent variety: Arroz Bomba. This is a round grain rice of the Japonica variety with short, pearl-shaped grains. Bomba rice can soak up a lot of liquid, and if you cook…
Gaeng Massaman Gai
Gaeng Massaman Gai (แกงมัสมั่นไก่) is a Thai curry based on Massaman curry paste that you can buy or make yourself. Bought is perfectly fine and saves a lot of time, but homemade tastes much better. “Gai” means chicken, so today…
Massaman Curry Paste
Curry is not a fixed term and curry is not just curry. In Indian cuisine, spices are dry roasted or roasted in clarified butter, and their combinations lend fascinating complexities of flavours to dishes. In North African or Turkish cuisine,…
Lentils and Spaetzle
Lentils and spaetzle, or more precisely: lentils with spaetzle and Vienna sausages, are a Swabian national dish. After we have explained how to prepare the best spaetzle by hand, and also cheese spaetzle, there is simply no getting around this…
Best rhubarb cake
The best rhubarb cake is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside, sweet and sour in a match made in heaven. Rhubarb is a special plant, originally coming from China. In the early Middle Ages it reached Europe…
Breadcrumbs
Everyone experiences this: despite all efforts to avoid leftovers, the bread becomes so dry that you can no longer eat it. There are many uses for dry bread, but the easiest is clearly to simply make breadcrumbs out of it.…
Pasta Salsiccia e Birra
Today we’re making a quick, incredibly tasty and unusual pasta dish – ‘salsiccia e birra’, featuring Italian raw sausage and beer (as part of the dish, though it also makes an excellent accompaniment). We’ll start by cutting some pancetta –…
Sunny side up eggs
If you like your fried egg well done, if you even turn it while frying or if you like it crispy, with dark edges and big bubbles in the egg white, don’t read any further from here on. Of course,…
